The issue is that someone else holds the key to your license. They can revoke it at any time, with 0 meaningful consequences.

We must now provide our own physical media to store the game…which in principle is fine and makes more sense than a game disk. However, the reliance on corporations to not fuck you over is the issue.

Archiving all your games is easier than said done too. To properly “keep” every game, you’ll need a lot of high-capacity storage devices. Going by common file backup strategy, we need to store at least 3 copies, ideally 1 off site somehow. That’s going to add up quick.

And hopefully your game is DRM free and doesn’t try to phone home looking for a valid license on a deprecated server.

I just tell them I don’t like these apps scanning pictures of my kids and knowing their exact location at all times. My phone also has a lot of my kids pictures that I don’t want being scanned for AI.

If a 40year old man had constant microphone, camera and GPS access to my kids, I’d be justified to go buy a gun. Why should a “corporation” be treated any different?

And privacy is not about hiding, it’s about keeping nosey people out of our lives. Like closing the windows when you’re talking about your finances so the neighbors can’t hear. You’re not hiding anything illegal, you just don’t want strangers to know every detail of your life.

Next update? No, it’s re-enabled automatically when ever you have an important conversation, that way you can’t forget to turn it back on!

I hate what google has become.

This is like if Walmart started policing what products Target can sell and policing what products can go into your house, while not bothering to police their own store.

I still use Simple note.

While I’d prefer one that isn’t owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don’t have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there’s an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don’t trust it for anything important or sensitive.

Hypothetical bullshit on what could happen;

July 1st, after a whole bunch of panic buys, "we’ve listened to community feedback and re-evaluated our pricing to be more in line with our community values. We are happy to announce a lifetime $300 Plex Subscriptions, it comes with an industry leading 2 year of Plex Pass at no cost.

Hey don’t lump me in with those whiny clowns! I’m a whiny clown in a clown suit. Damn foreigners making extremely generalized assumptions about us /s

Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It’s not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There’s a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.

If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.

Well, there’s a big difference between “knowing” something and knowing something (i.e proof your intuition is right).

We should make cars with same break as the saw stop.

It’ll be fun to watch.

I mean…if it stops the exploitation of the “stars”, that’s a net positive. There’s some horror stories out there.

Someone will probably find a massive vulnerability that affects every version of windows, because why not?

It’s a mix, and not necessarily limited to older laptops.

You want to stay up to date with security updates as much as possible. Feature updates are not as important, especially if you want the least bugs.

On windows you can defer security and feature updates separately, I typically set 1 week for security and 1 year for feature updates (Assuming they haven’t changed that option again). That’s been enough for me to dodge the data-deleting updates.

For Linux, I don’t think it’s separated as a quick user option so cleanly. You can install the LTS (Long Term Support) version of your distro. The maintainers of that will do security/bug fixes as needed and slowly push feature updates when they are very well tested.

That was quick. This took a few months, while artists have been dealing with AI stealing their work for years now.

Put an indicator light on the glasses with a sensor to make sure it’s on from the nose bridge.

This is that part that’s missing, it’s more obvious when someone is holding their phone to record you. Phone’s should probably have an indicator too…

the same budget

How much did this it cost to collect all this data?

What cost? The data collectors paid us!

Yeah, syncing with default settings is a bad idea for backup, but it’s better than nothing.

A more robust set up, while not foolproof, is to set history to keep all copies for 30 days, not a fixed amount of files. It’s also important to set conflict detection so if the file is modified on two devices in between syncs, it will keeps both copies (and cross-syncs them).

I say go for it, learn all the pitfalls and how you like it setup and when its time to upgrade next year maybe Motorola will have released/announced something that supports graphene by then.

If support ends before Motorola releases a phone, either switch back, find a used pixel somewhere or try something else.

They were also the first OEM to support steam deck on their handheld (beside Valve).

Wasn’t me, but I’m guessing because you said they only last a few hours? I took that ridiculous exaggeration and assumed you meant writing notes on your thumb.